It’s OFFICIAL and I can finally talk about this amazing opportunity!!! Thank you so so much Kivu Ruhorahoza for going on a wild ride with me. Thank you Elias Ribeiro, Cait Pansegrouw & all the readers for REALNESS – A Screenwriter’s Residency it’s been 3 years that I was dreaming of participating and now it is finally happening. I can’t wait. Urucu Media x Realness – An African Screenwriter’s Residency x Festival de Cannes – Cannes Film Festival OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: REALNESS SELECTION – 3RD EDITION After an extensive evaluation of more than 130 projects from 24 countries, it is our greatest pleasure to introduce you to the Realness Residents of 2018; Kantarama Gahigiri – Rwanda (Project: Tanzanite) Matthys Boshoff – South Africa (Project: Vlees Van My Vlees) Ng’endo Mukii – Kenya (Project: The Goat Sunday) Reem Morsi – Egypt (Project: Bootleg) Mohammed Siam – Egypt (Project: Blood and Honey) PRESS: Realness Screenwriter’s Residency 2018 participants announced at Cannes Film Festival https://www.screendaily.com/news/five-projects-selected-for-2018-african-screenwriting-residency-realness/5129672.article – Kantarama
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Reflecting on last week’s adventures at Mashariki African Film Festival! It was a pleasure teaching again a two-day introductory workshop titled “Girls In Cinema” hosted by Goethe-Institut Kigali. & being Member of the Jury for African Short Films category along with my dear friends Joël Karekezi and Nirere Shanel. So many interesting exchanges, so many new connections. Great 4th Edition. So grateful ❤ thank you Universe!
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THANK YOU 2018 !!! So grateful !!! Still in February and already : – Traveled to 5 cities (Paris, Rotterdam, Kigali, Berlin, Geneva)… – Watched A LOT of films, classics and new at International Film Festival Rotterdam – IFFR and Berlinale – Berlin International Film Festival !!! (*including classics like: Lumumba Retour au Congo by Raoul Peck, Sankofa by Haile Gerima, La Noire de… by Ousmane Sembène, Harvest 3000 years by Haile Gerima) (*but also: SUPA MODO, Eldorado, MAKI’LA – Film, Das Kongo Tribunal, Birds Are Singing in Kigali, Une Saison En France, Kinshasa Makambo, Azougue Nazaré, It Must Make Peace, I Am Not A witch, Djon Africa, Cook Off, Les Deux Visages D’Une Femme Bamileke, Viaje A Los Pueblos Fumigados, Our Madness, High Fantasy, Vivre Riche) (*and : Respeto, Laissez bronzer les cadavres, The Real Estate, 7 Days In Entebbe, MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A., Yocho (Foreboding), Khook) – Got to celebrate with my friend for his award-winning short film: IMFURA-short Film by Karemangingo Ishimwe !!! 1st Rwandan film at Berlinale YAY !!! (*and other inspiring shorts : Tuko Macho by Jim Chuchu, Mugabo by Amelia Um, La Mazda Jaune Et Sa Sainteté by Sandra Heremans, Hairat by Jessica Beshir, Mahogany Too by Akosua Adoma Owusu) – Participated in Haïlé Gerima‘s EYE-OPENING Workshop about Storytelling Structure / Reclaiming our Narrative & Decolonizing our Minds !!! – […]
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Great STORYTELLING IN AFRICA: FUTURE TRENDS panel discussion at Africa Tech Summit Kigali !!! I am truly grateful for the experience: having been invited to design and moderate this discussion with my great panelists, fellow filmmakers @regisheja @cynthiabutare @sharangabombabazi & inanga innovator @munyakazideo was a challenge, but the outcome felt so rewarding !!! We will come back next year with a bigger, more crazy, more immersive concept… see you soon !!! Shout out to @akomanet for inviting me to share my vision !!! ✨ – Kantarama
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“WHAT KIND OF MOVIE WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE IF THE WORLD WAS YOURS!?!” said HAILE GERIMA today in his masterclass. Thank you International Film Festival Rotterdam for the Pan-African Cinema Today (PACT) program! ✨🌍🎬🔥 📷 from “La Noire de…” masterpiece by Sembène Ousmane – Kantarama
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Happy New Year! – from a few hippos and me chilling by Luangwa River, Zambia. (One of the most magical places I have visited on Earth. Ever.) 2018 already looks like more traveling, new projects and great adventures, …something BIG is cooking. I cannot wait to tell you all about it!!! Lots of love, health, happiness, success, adventures, creativity and peace to all of you for #2018 #InsideThePyramid #Tanzanite -Kantarama
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Thank you Akoma Media for the opportunity to teach at the Amplify Fellowship Program! 🌍🎬🎥🌐 My class was live simultaneously in 4 major cities: Lagos (Nigeria), Accra (Ghana), Nairobi (Kenya) and Kigali (Rwanda) ❤️ WATCH OUT for these amazing, diverse, creative and passionate people: videographers / filmmakers, fiction- / non-fiction- writers, bloggers / vloggers, photographers… WOW I cannot wait to see your work. This was 🔥🔥🔥 !!! #WhatIDoOnWeekends – Kantarama
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